Grade 4 Wilks

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with a Math pop quiz. Again, this is a progress quiz that doesn’t count on their report cards, but will show students what they should study over Christmas break. If your child did not do very well on the quiz, they are encouraged to…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our second Simon James presentation. He talked to us about the importance of making sure we don’t engage in cultural appropriation and not re-creating others’ works to sell for profit. The students will be doing some carving for a school project in a…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our multiplication and division Math Minute – today’s focus was the 7 times tables. Then, we had a quick lesson on arrays and how to write multiplication and division facts to correspond with the different arrays. Students then worked on pages 105-106 #1-8…

Dear Parents, Today, as usual, we started off with our multiplication and division Math Minute. Students are seeing progress in their division, which is great! Then, we did our Spelling Test. I will be posting them on Fresh Grade soon. After, students went to Music, had recess, and then snack….

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our two Math Minutes – multiplication & division. Then, students did their Health Quiz. I hope to finish marking them by the end of the week and will upload them on Fresh Grade when I am done. Students completed a multiplication vs. division…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our Math Minute for Multiplication & Division. Then, the students and I found patterns in the multiplication chart and discussed factors and products again to review. We then put the group Math murals together – they look awesome! I will try to post…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our multiplication and division Math Minutes. A lot of students are noticing continual progress, which is great 🙂 After, I had students use dice in partners in order to multiply factors to find the product. Unfortunately, only 8/28 of the students finished their…

Dear Parents, I’m absent today, but thought I’d jump on here to do a quick Blog Post of the homework for the weekend. Weekend Journals: Students are going to be getting new weekend journal folders today. They will complete their journals in these folders instead from now on. There is a…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off the day with our Math Minute again. However, this time we did our regular 1.5 minute multiplication practice (we are on 3 times tables) and we also did a division Math Minute for 2.5 minutes (as we haven’t focused on division a lot yet)….

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our Mad Minute practicing our 3 times tables. Then, we worked on coming up with related facts in order to connect multiplication and division. e.g. 9 x 8 = 72 or 8 x 9 = 72 and 72 divided by 8 = 9…